Re: recommandation of CF that works with PC

"clarence chan" <[email protected]> Sat, 22 Jun 2002 09:11:12 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.embedded
Message-ID <[email protected]>


>From: "Michael C. Ibarra" <[email protected]>
>To: Nicholas Lee <[email protected]>
>CC: clarence chan <[email protected]>, [email protected]
>Subject: Re: recommandation of CF that works with PC
>Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:44:10 -0400
>
>
>Quoting Nicholas Lee <[email protected]>:
>
> > On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 01:30:46PM +0800, clarence chan wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I just got my cd-ide adapter for type I/II CF from flashmemory.com.au 
>this
> > > morning and I am going to get the 128M CF to install the OpenBSD-3.1 
>(base
> > > & etc on it).  My machine is a pc with slot-1 CPU and ASUS-P3BF
> > > (Motherbroad) machine.  Is there any recommandation for the CF that 
>works
> > > with it as I know some CF was reported not worked with Net4501 (eg 
>PQI)?
> >
> > I've had no issues with Kingtons 64Mb CFs.  Probably worth sticking to
> > the brand name CF.
>
>I would strongly agree with this, having learned the hard way with our own
>line of servers.
>
>Using Chris Capuccio's EXCELLENT docs, I've just built and installed
>OpenBSD on a 4501. I've added the latest IPfilter to the mix and am
>now planning to run a comparison between IPfilter and pf, having all
>on a CF makes this very easy. I am using 128MB Sandisk CF's, works
>well so far, up two days :-) On the IDE/ CF adapter side, I found a
>very good one at www.mesanet.com Kit Chang, the owner of MesaNet, has
>adpaters that work with both 40 and 44pin IDE drives and with/without
>power as well. He also has a dual CF adapter.
>
>Next, gotta get some wireless cards and build my 4521!
>
>-mike
>

Hi mike,

Do you mean the web site of Chris is http://dqc.org/~chris/soekris/ ?  If 
yes, I do think it is the most easy way for me to follow it as I had read 
several times about it.

Clarence

>Michael C. Ibarra
>Hawk Technologies, Inc
>http://www.hawk.com
>800.hawk.com
>
>
>
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